Does anyone here know what the latest is on Southwest's flight deck setup?
I know they were very archaic with their cockpit setups still using the old six pack with no auto throttle and no VNAV in a brand new LCD equipped aeroplane.
For a while now all of SWA's -700s no longer have the round dials (the -800 never had them), use VNAV, and the autothrottles are operational. SWA does RNAV approaches (to include RNP) in both the -700s and -800s. The -300s/-500s still use the round dials and have no autothrottles but do have the VNAV. The -300s and -500s can use RNAV approaches as a back up to a visual.